The tort system may achieve what the state legislatures could not with the hate-based Westboro Baptist Church. Continue reading “Hate-Based Church Ordered to Pay Millions to Grieving Father of Dead Soldier”
Month: October 2007
In what may be a disappointment for many, the Senate leadership has scheduled a vote on Mukasey for next Tuesday despite his refusal to recognize that waterboarding is torture. Continue reading “Senate Schedules Mukasey Vote for Next Tuesday — Despite Refusal to Recognize Waterboarding as Torture”
For the second time since his disasterous hearing, Michael Mukasey has refused to recognize that waterboarding is torture in answers to the Senate. Continue reading “Mukasey Refuses to Denounce Waterboarding as Torture Again in Written Responses to Senate”
For many liberals and civil libertarians, the Senate Democrats have long been the political equivalent of the Italian army: They are best seen on parade. Continue reading “Senate Democrats Have One Last Chance To Address Torture”
For years, it has been rumored that the FBI used mob muscle to coerce information from a Klansman to locate the bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, Continue reading “Witness Testifies that FBI Used Mob to Coerce Information in Famous Civil Rights Case”
The White House continues to try to spin the presumptively false testimony of Michael Mukasey before the Senate. Continue reading “New Spins on Mukasey Testimony”
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will again enter the debate over curbing Internet porn. Continue reading “Supreme Court Takes Up Pornography Case”
The Supreme Court has grant cert to hear the Exxon Valdez cse and to agree whether Exxon Mobil should have to pay any punitive damages for the 1989 disaster that fouled 1,200 miles of pristine Alaskan shoreline. Continue reading “Supreme Court to Hear Exxon Valdez Case”
It appears that even being a government minister is not enough to protect you from being pulled aside for ‘flying while Muslim.” Continue reading “U.S. Holds Britain’s First Muslim Minister at Dulles on Suspicion in Major Diplomatic Flap”
After the Florida Supreme Court threw out the $145 billion jury award against Big Tobacco, the industry celebrated the avoidance of a near disaster. However, individual cases are now lining up to return to court ahead of a January 11th deadline. Continue reading “Florida Tobacco Cases Head Back to Trial Court After Engle Defeat”
The American Bar Association has called for a freeze on executions across the country. Continue reading “ABA Calls for Freeze on Executions”
One of the concerns about closing the Cuba facilities for detainees is that it would only lead to detainees disappearing into unknown facilities. That concern seems to have been realized with regard to the CIA secret prisons. Continue reading “CIA Secret Prisons Emptied: Prisoners Disappear”
In an unexpected move, the U.S. Army is close to overturning the convictions of 63 black soldiers 63 years ago in Seattle after rioting of POWs at Fort Lawton. Continue reading “Convictions of Black Soldiers Overturned — 63 Years Later”
Never a great defender of the constitutional rights as a senator, Sen. Craig will now raise an important challenge to the constitutionality of his arrest. Continue reading “Craig Will Argue Constitutional Argument”
The White House has issued a defense of Judge Mukasey’s presumably false testimony that he was unaware of the techniques used in waterboarding — the favorite form of torture employed by the CIA. Continue reading “White House Issues Implausible Defense of Mukasey’s Allegedly False Testimony”